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Title: The Language of Touch
Contributor: Asifa Majid
Gunter Senft
Stephen C. Levinson
Country: Netherlands
Genre: Experiment or task
Format: application/pdf
Persistent Identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1839/7848ccca-f727-4490-bf3a-99539c9fb905
Description: Newborn infants learn about the world around them through touch. Piaget famously noted the importance of manual and oral exploration of objects for developing spatial cognition and knowledge of the world. There are a number of receptors and nerve endings in our skin that perform different information processing tasks. Pain, temperature, itchiness, etc. are all conveyed through the skin. The goal of this task is to investigate how languages encode tactile texture – specifically (1) whether there is dedicated vocabulary for encoding texture and (2) how much consistency there is within a community for describing tactile texture. PREREQUISITES: You must have completed Language of perception (pp. 10-21; https://hdl.handle.net/1839/73dc254e-96cc-4c0b-8731-3160f95f9872). To conduct this task you need (i) texture booklet and (ii) blindfold. The stimulus materials are not yet available for distribution.
Additional info: Volume 2007, filed under Categories across language and cognition. Tags: perception, touch
How to cite this resource:
Majid, A., Senft, G., & Levinson, S. C. (2007). The language of touch. In A. Majid (Ed.), Field Manual Volume 10 (pp. 32-35). Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. doi:10.17617/2.492907.

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- Name : The Language of Touch
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  Description : Newborn infants learn about the world around them through touch. Piaget famously noted the importance of manual and oral exploration of objects for developing spatial cognition and knowledge of the world. There are a number of receptors and nerve endings in our skin that perform different information processing tasks. Pain, temperature, itchiness, etc. are all conveyed through the skin. The goal of this task is to investigate how languages encode tactile texture – specifically (1) whether there is dedicated vocabulary for encoding texture and (2) how much consistency there is within a community for describing tactile texture. PREREQUISITES: You must have completed Language of perception (pp. 10-21; https://hdl.handle.net/1839/73dc254e-96cc-4c0b-8731-3160f95f9872). To conduct this task you need (i) texture booklet and (ii) blindfold. The stimulus materials are not yet available for distribution.
  
  Description : Additional info: Volume 2007, filed under Categories across language and cognition. Tags: perception, touch
  
  Description : How to cite this resource:
  
  Description : Majid, A., Senft, G., & Levinson, S. C. (2007). The language of touch. In A. Majid (Ed.), Field Manual Volume 10 (pp. 32-35). Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. doi:10.17617/2.492907.
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  Continent : Europe
  
  Country : Netherlands
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  Name : Language and Cognition Field Manuals
  
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  Organisation : Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
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Asifa Majid, Gunter Senft, and Stephen C. Levinson. (2007). Item "The Language of Touch" in collection "Field Manuals". The Language Archive. https://hdl.handle.net/1839/7848ccca-f727-4490-bf3a-99539c9fb905. (Accessed 2023-09-29)

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